Global Finance

MARCH 5, 2025

Finance Minister Noora Al-Fassam estimates the tax will target over 300 companies, raising up to $825 million annually. Since 2018, the number of banks in the GCC has dropped from 77 to 60, primarily through mergers and acquisitions that have created regional giants. The transaction was later called off.

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Equidam

JUNE 23, 2025

In fact, the number of investment rounds completed is at its lowest level since Q2 2018. Revenue-based financing has emerged as a significant alternative, with the global RBF market projected to reach $42 billion by 2027. But before you let that send you spiralling, let’s look closer. billion tech sector showing particular strength.

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Global Finance

JUNE 11, 2025

Since then, innovations have flowed thick and fast, including SemFi by HSBC, which aims to deliver seamless embedded finance solutions to business clients. Wells Fargo Estate Care Center In 2018, Wells Fargo created its Estate Care Center to help families manage estate settlements.

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Global Finance

JUNE 9, 2025

Currently, lab activities focus on the adoption of cutting-edge technologies in fields such as the metaverse, mixed reality, decentralized finance, and AI. These include fintech, digital banking, and sustainable-finance technologies. Of particular note is Fizz.hu, a curated online marketplace offering built-in financing options.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Understandably, then, innovation is the common thread among Global Finance ’s Stars of China award winners this year. Supporting innovative manufacturers with financing for research and development is also assuming a more prominent place on bank agendas. trillion) in assets.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Tariff Man Returns To Center Stage Trade tariffs have been a cornerstone of US policy since its earliest days, long before the 2018 tweet in which then-President Trump dubbed himself a Tariff Man and made them a central theme of his first administration. As in 2018, any increase in US tariffs would likely provoke retaliation from China.

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Musings on Markets

JUNE 17, 2025

In a 2018 paper , Fragkiskos, Ryan and Markov noted that among Ivy League endowments, properly adjusting for risk causes any benefits in terms of Sharpe ratios, from adding alternative investments to the mix, to disappear.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 18, 2025

In my classes and writing on corporate finance, I look at the motives for businesses retaining cash, as well as how much cash is too much cash. The Motives for holding Cash In my introductory finance classes, there was little discussion of cash holdings in companies, outside of the sessions on working capital.

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Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

During Donald Trumps first term as president, escalating US-China trade tensions led to a 15% decline in 2018 ECM volumes following a 20% rise in 2017. Global equity markets face risks from the Trump administrations proposed universal tariffs, which could disrupt global trade and corporate earnings.

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Benzinga

JULY 10, 2025

The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of certain regulatory approvals, is expected to complete in Q3 2025, and will be funded by additional debt financing. billion (the "Facility").

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Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

Market participants entered the year hoping for a robust revival in M&A, IPO, and debt financing activities. JX Advanced Metals managed to raise 439 billion yen ($3 billion) on March 10, becoming Japans biggest IPO since SoftBanks telecom unit in 2018. Global Finance editors reviewed their assessments and made the final selections.

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Global Finance

JULY 16, 2025

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) reports that the number of companies the island nation hosts in the field grew from six in 2018 to 65 in 2024. There’s now multi-service expansion, fintechs for specific segments like personal finance tools for Generation Z, and banking solutions for migrants or informal workers.”

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Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As illustrated in Figure 1, among firms with mutual fund equity ownership and outstanding bonds, the percentage of firms with dual holdings increased from 38% in 2008 to 58% in 2018, and firm-level mutual fund dual holding intensity (MFDH) increased threefold. This post is based on their working paper. more…)

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 15, 2022

Posted by Stephan Siegel (University of Washington), on Wednesday, June 15, 2022 Editor's Note: Stephan Siegel is Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the University of Washington. publicly traded companies to report the ratio between CEO pay and median worker pay for the first time in 2018.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 13, 2022

Posted by Matthew Fust, on Wednesday, July 13, 2022 Editor's Note: Matthew Fust serves as a board member for several publicly traded and venture-backed biopharmaceutical companies and is a corporate finance and strategy advisor in the life sciences industry. This post is based on an NACD BoardTalk publication.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 4, 2022

While the period up to 2018 was marked by an absence of ESG and sustainability focused regulatory pressure, in the period since, there have been efforts across the globe to ensure investors, financiers and companies pursue more sustainable business practices.

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Global Finance

AUGUST 13, 2024

The second installment of a Global Finance FAQ web series on Islamic finance. Many of the products offered by Islamic financial institutions are comparable to Western or conventional finance even though interest and speculation are forbidden. Islamic Finance FAQ: •What Is Islamic Finance And How Does It Work? •Is

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MARCH 29, 2024

Pagnotta (Singapore Management University), on Friday, March 29, 2024 Editor's Note: Marcin Kacperczyk is Professor of Finance at Imperial College London, and Emiliano S. Pagnotta is an Associate Professor of Finance at Singapore Management University. This post is based on their article published in the Journal of Finance.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 27, 2022

While the rules do not go as far as the European Union’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (“SFDR”), if adopted they would substantially increase the disclosure obligations of funds and investment advisers that consider ESG factors. domiciled assets integrating ESG strategies grew 42% between 2018 and the end of 2020.

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Benzinga

JUNE 26, 2025

Founded in 2018, Bank Zero seeks to provide a better banking experience for its customers, offering a secure, app-driven platform designed to give individuals and businesses greater control, transparency, and cost-efficiency in managing their money. Full story available on Benzinga.com

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 28, 2022

In 2018, SEC Commissioner Robert J. This post is based on their recent paper. Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes Short-Termism and Capital Flows by Jesse M. Jackson Jr. ” While this concern has received a lot of attention from U.S.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 30, 2022

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) employs blockchain technology and smart contracts with the goal of enabling perfectly disintermediated financial markets. billion in mid-2018 to $57.5 Cumming, DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at Florida Atlantic University. billion in 2021.

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ThomsonReuters

JANUARY 3, 2022

Supply-chain finance is nothing new; it’s been?around Greensill Capital collapsed in early 2021 when it lost financing after its shady practices came to light. And Carillion suffered a similar fate in 2018 when it filed for insolvency after crumbling under the weight of $2 billion of debt, a?significant around for decades.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 12, 2022

3] In 2018, the Commission issued interpretive guidance to reinforce and expand upon the 2011 Staff Guidance by identifying existing provisions in Regulations S-K and S-X that may require disclosure about cybersecurity risks, governance, and incidents. [4] 4] Notably, the guidance did not create any new obligations.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Kaplan is the Neubauer Family Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Kaplan (University of Chicago Booth School of Business), on Wednesday, November 2, 2022 Editor's Note: Steven N.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 16, 2024

Posted by Jun Qian (Fudan University), on Tuesday, April 16, 2024 Editor's Note: Jun Qian (QJ) is Professor of Finance and Executive Dean at the Fanhai International School of Finance (FISF), Fudan University. During the period of 2000-2018, the Chinese economy grew by a factor of 4.8

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 27, 2023

In 2011, “the Division of Corporation Finance issued interpretive guidance providing [its] views concerning operating companies’ disclosure obligations relating to cybersecurity.” [1] 3] We do not need additional regulations.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This post is based on their recent paper , forthcoming in the Journal of Finance. Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes Index Funds and the Future of Corporate Governance: Theory, Evidence and Policy (discussed on the Forum here ) by Lucian A.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 11, 2024

Posted by Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard Law School) and Robert Jackson (NYU School of Law), on Tuesday, June 11, 2024 Editor's Note: Lucian Bebchuk is the James Barr Ames Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance, and Director of the Program on Corporate Governance, at Harvard Law School. Securities and Exchange Commission from 2018 to 2020.

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Gross Mendelsohn

DECEMBER 15, 2023

As first reported by The Athletic , a former employee in the finance department of the Jacksonville Jaguars is facing federal charges for allegedly stealing more than $22 million from the team over a four-year period. The employee, Amit Patel, was a mid-level employee who worked for the team for at least five full seasons, beginning in 2018.

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Fox Corporate Finance

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

For the second time in a row, the Spanish healthcare VC market reaches a financing threshold of >EUR 300, doubling within only two years. From 2016 to 2018, the financing volumes totaled around EUR 150, Read more.

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Global Finance

JULY 25, 2024

The Philippines is looking to Japan to partially finance its ballooning debt as Manila moves to strengthen ties between the two countries. The Department of Finance (DoF) says it is exploring issuing yen-denominated, or samurai bonds alongside or in place of conventional US-dollar bond issuance. billion (roughly $1.39

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IVSC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Katto has held key public appointments in Uganda, including commissioner on the Judicial Commission of Enquiry into the Closure of Banks, Council Member of African Peer Review Mechanism (Uganda) and Chairman of the Ministry of Finance’s Pension Liberalization and Regulation Sub-Committee.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Qualcomm would likely need to finance an Intel acquisition through a combination of debt and stock. And Qualcomm’s own attempt to purchase NXP in 2018 fell apart due to regulatory disapproval from China. The post Intel In Crosshairs Of Apollo, Qualcomm appeared first on Global Finance Magazine.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

From 2018, Niccol helped revitalize the brand after it had been plagued by food safety scandals, resulting in severe damage to its reputation and declining sales. The post Starbucks’ New CEO Creates Buzz For A Turnaround appeared first on Global Finance Magazine.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 8, 2024

African nations’ rising debt to China began raising sustainability concerns early in the last decade as more of them turned to the Eastern colossus to finance critical infrastructure projects. Chinese-financed projects have had positive spillover effects on broader economic activity in Africa, something not as evident with World Bank loans.”

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Business Wire M&A

MARCH 21, 2023

As part of the acquisition, Quo’s team, led by Co-Founders Tucker Haas and Neel Yerneni will join the Homebot team.

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